Zanzibar music lovers everywhere are mourning the loss of legendary musician Makame Faki Makame, who died on January 18, 2020, at the age of 77, at Global hospital in Stone Town, Zanzibar, following a ...

Thousands of visitors to the historic city of Stone Town, Zanzibar, have followed the sound of music to the Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA), a music school that promotes and preserves the islands’ ...

Pennyroyal Limited the developers of Blue Amber Zanzibar a leading African leisure destination and Zanzibar’s premier island resort, and Busara Promotions the organizers of the Sauti za Busara a pan, ...

Seeing it live on Plus TV, it seems like watching another world. A live band on stage and an audience of some 2500 people, mostly dancing. Usually audience cutaways are rather dull, but now it’s ...

A month or two after most music critics compile their favorite albums of 2014, I’m finally getting around to making my list. Few international titles brought me more pleasure than Chungu, a dazzling ...

Back in November, WPFW Sunday night DJ Jim Byers kicked off the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s “Metro Mambo: Latin Music in DC” series of concerts and lectures with a special program titled ...

Festival Director Yusuf Mahmoud born aloft as the event reaches its raucous climax Sauti za Busara ("Sounds of Wisdom" in Swahili) takes place in Stone Town, capital city of Zanzibar, an island off ...